"It involves 30-second questions and a three-minute limit on answers, it involves amending the standing orders so that answers and questions will have to be more directly relevant to the question," he said.

"It will ensure that the speaker has the power to rule out questions that are argumentative or don't ask for issues of fact."

Mr Oakeshott wants the document signed before he announces which side he will back for minority Government.

Under the proposal, if the speaker is from one of the major parties, the deputy would be from the other side, and both would then stop going to their partyroom meetings.

There would also be a move to ensure whichever party the speaker comes from would not be disadvantaged by losing their vote.

Other measures include forcing the Government to respond to committee reports within six months and all new bills would go to a committee before they are introduced to the house.

There would also be a parliamentary budget office to do independent costings.

Another innovation would be an acknowledgment of country each day before the prayer.

Crunch time

Mr Oakeshott and his fellow incumbent independents Bob Katter and Tony Windsor are yet to say which side they will support.

As they deliberate, the Opposition is increasing the pressure on the trio to back a Coalition Government.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has used a newspaper opinion piece to question why the Independents would consider throwing a lifeline to the Labor Government.

The manager of opposition business, Christopher Pyne, has told Channel Ten that all the signs point to the Coalition forming Government.

"Most Australians would regard it as counter-intuitive, if the Coalition with more seats, more votes and more preferences didn't form a Government when three rural-based independents, all of whom seats have almost always been held by the non-Labor side of politics, voted a Labor Government into power," he said.

This week Labor gained the support of Melbourne Greens MP Adam Bandt and the Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie.

But Mr Pyne says the Labor-Greens alliance will be unstable.

"If the independents want a government that can actually get things done and do them correctly and competently, they will support us," he said.

"If Labor gets back in to power, we'll see the same incompetence that we've seen under the pink batts, the BER school halls debacle and border protection."

Mr Wilkie knocked back the Coalition's offer of $1 billion for the Royal Hobart Hospital in his Tasmanian electorate of Denison, in favour of $340 million from Labor.

Ms Roxon has told the ABC's Insiders that Mr Wilkie can have more confidence in Labor's process.

"It seems to me that Mr Wilkie one was giving us credit for having already made such investments and two having a process in place to be able to do it where he knows that he can get some extra confidence that it's a worthy project," he said.

Ms Roxon also says it is the Coalition has failed the bush.

"I would have thought that these independents are smart enough to say - 'what did they do in the 11-and-a-half years and what's our Government done in the past three years and that will weigh very heavily on them?'"